Kulikov, Ilia

9 publications

ICLR 2026 Hybrid Reinforcement: When Reward Is Sparse, Better to Be Dense Leitian Tao, Ilia Kulikov, Swarnadeep Saha, Tianlu Wang, Jing Xu, Sharon Li, Jason E Weston, Ping Yu

ICLR 2026 J1: Incentivizing Thinking in LLM-as-a-Judge via Reinforcement Learning Chenxi Whitehouse, Tianlu Wang, Ping Yu, Xian Li, Jason E Weston, Ilia Kulikov, Swarnadeep Saha

ICLR 2026 LLM Pretraining with Continuous Concepts Jihoon Tack, Jack Lanchantin, Jane Yu, Andrew Cohen, Ilia Kulikov, Janice Lan, Shibo Hao, Yuandong Tian, Jason E Weston, Xian Li

ICLR 2026 OptimalThinkingBench: Evaluating over and Underthinking in LLMs Pranjal Aggarwal, Seungone Kim, Jack Lanchantin, Sean Welleck, Jason E Weston, Ilia Kulikov, Swarnadeep Saha

NeurIPS 2025 NaturalReasoning: Reasoning in the Wild with 2.8m Challenging Questions Weizhe Yuan, Jane Yu, Song Jiang, Karthik Padthe, Yang Li, Dong Wang, Ilia Kulikov, Kyunghyun Cho, Yuandong Tian, Jason E Weston, Xian Li

NeurIPSW 2024 Distilling System 2 into System 1 Ping Yu, Jing Xu, Jason E Weston, Ilia Kulikov

TMLR 2024 From Decoding to Meta-Generation: Inference-Time Algorithms for Large Language Models Sean Welleck, Amanda Bertsch, Matthew Finlayson, Hailey Schoelkopf, Alex Xie, Graham Neubig, Ilia Kulikov, Zaid Harchaoui

ICLR 2024 Multi-Resolution HuBERT: Multi-Resolution Speech Self-Supervised Learning with Masked Unit Prediction Jiatong Shi, Hirofumi Inaguma, Xutai Ma, Ilia Kulikov, Anna Sun

ICLR 2020 Neural Text Generation with Unlikelihood Training Sean Welleck, Ilia Kulikov, Stephen Roller, Emily Dinan, Kyunghyun Cho, Jason Weston